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Books like The Choice: Embrace the Possible

12 books with a reading profile close to The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Edith Eger. Inward-looking, contemplative and clear-cut; an easy read.

1

Reasons to Stay Alive

by Matt Haig

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

At twenty-four, Matt Haig experienced a physical and mental breakdown in Ibiza that led to years of severe depression and panic disorder.
2

Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

by Rachel Held Evans

Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir

Rachel Held Evans uses the framework of seven traditional sacraments—baptism, confession, holy orders, communion, confirmation, anointing the sick, and marriage—to structure her memoir of religious deconstruction and re…
3

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

by Lori Gottlieb

Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir

Lori Gottlieb presents a dual narrative that follows her life as a psychotherapist and as a patient following a personal crisis.
4

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir

Viktor Frankl recounts his survival in Nazi concentration camps, detailing the psychological stages prisoners endured from admission to liberation.
5

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

by Cheryl Strayed

Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir

At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed faced the collapse of her world following her mother’s sudden death from cancer and the subsequent disintegration of her marriage.
6

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

by Cheryl Strayed

Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir

Cheryl Strayed compiles a series of anonymous advice columns written under the pseudonym Sugar, originally published on the website The Rumpus.
7

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

by Jill Bolte Taylor

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational

In 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist at Harvard University, suffered a massive stroke caused by a hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain.
8

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

by Michael A. Singer

Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, inspirational

Michael A.
9

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

by Anne Lamott

Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir

Anne Lamott details her transition from a chaotic, addiction-fueled upbringing into a singular practice of Christianity centered at St.
10

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

by David Sheff

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir

David Sheff chronicles the years he spent navigating his son Nic’s addiction to methamphetamine and various other drugs.
11

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

by Kate Bowler

Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir

At thirty-five, Kate Bowler was a professor at Duke Divinity School researching the prosperity gospel when she received a diagnosis of stage IV colon cancer.
12

What My Bones Know

by Stephanie Foo

Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, memoir

Stephanie Foo chronicles her transition from a high-functioning radio producer to a patient diagnosed with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

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